How do I make a simple SOAP client request in java?

[Sureshot324]

I need to make a request to a website that provides tv listings. Basically I just need to make a simple SOAP request for the listings and the site provides them in XML format.

What's the easiest way to do this? Do I need to download a package like Axis2 or JAX-WS? These seem kind of overkill for what I want to do, since I don't need to run a server. Is there something in the Java standard libraries that will do this? Is it difficult to just write the code for this my self?

 

[MrChad]

Axis2 would work. If it's a basic SOAP service without security, you could construct the SOAP XML envelope yourself, set the SOAPAction HTTP header and simply POST it to the URL.

 

[Sureshot324]

Originally posted by: MrChad
Axis2 would work. If it's a basic SOAP service without security, you could construct the SOAP XML envelope yourself, set the SOAPAction HTTP header and simply POST it to the URL.

I read the basic SOAP documentation and could probably figure out how to construct the SOAP envelope, but how do I post it to the URL?

Edit: nvm found the answer. I'll try it when I get home.

 

[Argo]

Instead of building SOAP envelope yourself why not use something like WSDL2Java to generate java classes from .wsdl/.xsd. Then the actual soap call comes down to 3-4 lines of java code.

 

[Sureshot324]

I can post the SOAP envelope, and the server sends back a long generic response without the TV listings. I think the problem is I need to login to the site first because the listings are customized for my account. How do I do this by just posting SOAP messages?

Here is the sample envelope the site gives for developers:

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<m:download xmlns:m="urn:TMSWebServices" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<startTime xsi:type="xsd:dateTime">2005-02-22T19:00:00Z
</startTime>
<endTime xsi:type="xsd:dateTime">2005-02-22T21:00:00Z
</endTime>
</m:download>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

I tried adding:
<login xmlns="urn:hostnameofsite">
<username>myusername</username>
<password>mypassword</password>
</login>
to the beginning of the body but it didn't work.

 

[Sureshot324]

Here's a PHP script that does exactly what I want to do:

$username='username';
$password='password';

$data_url='http://docs.tms.tribune.com/te...ct/tvDataDelivery.wsdl';
$start=gmdate("Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z",time());
$stop =gmdate("Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z",time()+3600*24);

$client = new SoapClient($data_url, array('exceptions' => 0,
'user_agent' => "php/".$_SERVER[SCRIPT_NAME],
'login' => strtolower($username),
'password' => $password));
$data = $client->download($start,$stop);

print_r($data);

What's the easiest way to do this in java?